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English edition
Sep
2010
304 pp.
27 b/w illus.
Hardbound
15X23 cm
$29.95
LE 150.00
ISBN
978 977 416 293 0
For sale worldwide
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Music and Media in the Arab World
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Edited by
Michael Frishkopf
Key issues of contemporary Arab society addressed through the culture of music
Since the turn of the twentieth century the dramatic rise of mass media has profoundly transformed music practices in the Arab world. Music has adapted to successive forms of media dissemination—from phonograph cylinders to MP3s—each subjected to the political and economic forces of its particular era and region. Carried by mass media, the broader culture of Arab music has been thoroughly transformed as well. Simultaneously, mass mediated music has become a powerful social force. While parallel processes have unfolded worldwide, their implications in the Arabic-speaking world have thus far received little scholarly attention.
This provocative volume features sixteen new essays examining these issues, especially televised music and the controversial new genre of the music video. Perceptive voices—both emerging and established—represent a wide variety of academic disciplines. Incisive essays by Egyptian critics display the textures of public Arabic discourse to an English readership. Authors address the key issues of contemporary Arab society—gender and sexuality, Islam, class, economy, power, and nation—as refracted through the culture of mediated music.
Interconnected by a web of recurrent concepts, this collection transcends music to become an important resource for the study of contemporary Arab society and culture.
Contributors: Wael Abdel Fattah, Yasser Abdel-Latif, Moataz Abdel Aziz, Tamim Al-Barghouti, Mounir Al Wassimi, Walter Armbrust, Elisabeth Cestor, Hani Darwish, Walid El Khachab, Abdel-Wahab Elmessiri, James Grippo, Patricia Kubala, Katherine Meizel, Zein Nassar, Ibrahim Saleh, Laith Ulaby.
Michael Frishkopf is professor of music and associate director of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology at the University of Alberta, Canada. His research centers on the Arab music industry, Sufi music, and sound in Islamic ritual.
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“Music and Media in the Arab World describes the transformation of Arabic music and the reality behind the creation of new musical trends. This thought-provoking book not only highlights the political and economic motivations driving the satellite channels, but it also shows that Arabic music has become a powerful social force that has yet to be fully recognized.”—Arab News
“As in many other parts of the world, the rise of mass media in the Arab world during the 20th century has had a dramatic effect on the region's music. Tracing the development of Arab music from its dissemination via phonographic cylinders to present-day online distribution of MP3s, the contributors to this volume show how the music has been both formed and been formed by the Arab culture of specific eras and regions. Chapters examine music and the mass media in Egypt, Lebanon, and the Persian Gulf region, and look in depth at music on Egyptian television and at the controversies over music videos and satellite television. As with many multi-author collections, some chapters are better than others, but overall this is a good introduction to music and mass media in the Arab world.”—Reference and Research Book News, April 2010
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